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Did you get any footage of the ‘c3′a2′e2’82′ac’c5’93Biergarten’c3′a2′e2’82′ac’c2uc0u157 .
Is this wifi going to be free?
I guess I missed that part!
So awesome!
So presumably if your content is streamed from your PC at home you will tend to be limited not by the bandwidth at your Wi-Fi location but by your home ADSL up-stream speed. I have a fairly average ADSL connection for England (1Mb down, 128K up). OK, id probably be able to stream MP3s alright but what would be the point to me connecting it to my DVD player?
Im certainly not knocking the idea of Wi-Fi enabled parks and public spaces, I wish we would have a lot more of it here.
I really like the way rocketboom is constantly surfing the edge of the near future wave. The underlying tone I feel when watching, like the old way is about to crumble. Like how the Germans felt right before the wall came down.
hurray for andrew rasiej!
we’re running his videoblog over here:
http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/category/videoblog/
we went to a wifi hearing at city hall with him on friday…video to come.
he’s doing great stuff!
One of my co-hosts has one. Works like a charm most of the time… streaming your DVD collection, etc from your house to Starbucks. Sorta spiff. Fun to play with as well.
Thanks to Amanda and Andrew. We were keeping a low profile, but no longer. The success of this undertaking will require our collective creativity. We are inventing uses for broadband public wi-fi here.
I am laying out 20 locations so far, with 18 in the parks, and 2 on the UWS along Broadway in the 60′s and 70′s.
Each location can support up to 255 nodes/Hot Spots, or about a square mile of public space — parks, streets. The nodes/Hot Spots can be miles away from the antenna at the location.
Companies like Apple, Sony, Samsung, IBM, media companies like EMI, Sony/BMG, Warner Music, Dreamworks, etc, can help support the build out with product launches, demos. Digital content distribution from Audible, iTunes, etc. can also support muni-wifi’s growth.
actually, as chuck seems to suspect below, amanda’s secret is out. i was at the event myself… June 10, 2007… she and the crew must have arrived by some form of time travel device. fortunately they seem to have brought free NY wifi back with them, at least for Battery Park, to 2005. — gaf